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Turkish publisher arrested and detained
The international literary community is demanding the immediate release of Turkish publisher and free speech activist Ragip Zarakolu, who has been arrested and imprisoned.
Moorhouse to boycott China tour
Australian author Frank Moorhouse has announced he will boycott a writers' tour of China in protest against the imprisonment of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo. The tour, which has been funded by...
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Wright receives honorary doctorateMiles Franklin-winning author Alexis Wright has received an honorary doctorate from RMIT, where she studied professional and creative writing. Wright, whose novel Car...
Elmore Leonard given lifetime achievement award
Crime writer Elmore Leonard has been named as the recipient of a lifetime achivement award by PEN USA.
English PEN concerned at criminal memoir gag
English PEN is urging publishers to contact the [UK] Ministry of Justice, to request further consultation on the proposed criminal memoirs gag. The proposed law, which is being considered as part of t...
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Barry to deliver Sydney PEN lectureMax Barry will give a lecture on ‘risk' as part of the Sydney PEN Voices project, on 15 July in Sydney and 21 July in Canberra. Barry will be introduced and qu...
PEN lifetime achievement award for Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy has been presented with the PEN/Saul Bellow lifetime achievement award, wirth US$25,000 and presented to a fiction writer whose work "possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, ...
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Booksellers NZ Conference 2009 dates and theme announcedThe 2009 Booksellers Conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Auckland, 26 to 27 July, with the theme ‘Rethinking the Book Tra...
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Book and newspaper sales up 20.5% on 2007Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures for September indicate books are bucking the flat national retail trend. While retail trade figures for the Septe...
PEN sets up 'libel watch' in the UK
Free-speech group PEN has set up a 'libel dossier' in the UK, and is asking publishers to alert it whenever they are asked to change a book on legal advice.
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